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Think Outside the Building: How Advanced Leaders Can Change the World One Smart Innovation at a Time

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One of the leading business thinkers in the world offers a bold, new theory of advanced leadership for tackling the world's complex, messy, and recalcitrant social and environmental problems. Over a decade ago, renowned innovation expert Rosabeth Moss Kanter co-founded and then directed Harvard's Advanced Leadership Initiative. Her breakthrough work with hundreds of successful professionals and executives, as well as aspiring young entrepreneurs, identifies the leadership paradigm of the future: the ability to "think outside the building" to overcome establishment paralysis and produce significant innovation for a better world. Kanter provides extraordinary accounts of the successes and near-stumbles of purpose-driven men and women from diverse backgrounds united in their conviction that positive change is possible. A former Trader Joe's executive, for example, navigated across business, government, and community sectors to deal with poor nutrition in inner cities while reducing food waste. A concerned European banker used the power of persuasion, not position, to find novel financing for improving the health of the oceans. A Washington couple enticed global partners to join an Uber-like platform to match skilled refugees with talent-hungry companies. A visionary journalist-turned-entrepreneur closed social divides by giving fifty million social media users access to free local education and culture. When traditional approaches are inadequate or resisted, advanced leadership skills are essential. In this book, Kanter shows how people everywhere can unleash their creativity and entrepreneurial adroitness to mobilize partners across challenging cultural, social, and political situations and innovate for a brighter future. Read more

Publisher ‏ : ‎ PublicAffairs (January 28, 2020)


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 352 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1541742710


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 10


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.25 pounds


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.25 x 1.25 x 9.5 inches


Best Sellers Rank: #1,130,855 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #1,697 in Environmental Economics (Books) #11,711 in Leadership & Motivation #12,527 in Business & Investing Skills


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    • Insightful
Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter had provided us with another valuable lesson about the business world. She has preached for many years about how business leadership involves creativity and originality. She is part of the business educational canon of the US.
Reviewed in the United States on March 17, 2020 by Robin
    • Cord length
The cord is a bit too short but the charger works well.
Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2020 by Tim L. Cornelius
    • How to establish a workplace culture within which advanced leadership is most likely to thrive.
I have read many of Rosabeth Moss Kanter's previously published books and reviewed most of those. Each is of unique and substantial value but I think her latest will prove to be the most valuable (thus far) because it will have the widest and deepest impact. It is a "must read" for those now preparing for a career in business or have already embarked on one. The "building" to which the book's title refers is the given workplace culture, at a time when so many companies have become hostage to what James O'Toole so aptly characterizes as "the ideology of comfort and the tyranny of custom." It can also be viewed as the [begin italics] organizational context [end italics] within which innovative thinking and decision-making challenge the status quo. Kanter introduces an especially appropriate extended metaphor: "Castles are representations of institutions...[they] are any set of institutional structures that loom large and feel permanent. Castles are monuments to the past and to past thinking, museums of preservation. They are establishments harboring the establishment, the elite of business and society. "Knowing the nature of castles helps challengers develop a plan of attack or a mode of change...The best way is to go around it or underneath it. Instead of rushing the front door, look below. Sneak around the back, and befriend disaffected but talented occupants on lower floors or underground who might leave to join you. Hold private meetings downstairs to strategize, invisible to the upstairs occupants. Find the secret backstairs passageways. Burrow underneath, expand the tunnels, and exploit weaknesses until eventually the foundations crumble. Then pry open the windows to let in fresh air and fresh thinking." This advice is worthy of Achilles and Sun Tzu. Kanter developed the concept of "advanced leadership" and founded a program at Harvard University. Briefly, The "Advanced Leadership Initiative (ALI) is a third stage in higher education designed to prepare experienced leaders to take on new challenges in the social sector where they have the potential to make an even greater societal impact than they did in their career. "Faculty from Harvard's professional schools of business, education, government, law, medicine and public health formed ALI to build knowledge about societal challenges requiring interdisciplinary leadership skills and to deploy accomplished leaders at later life stages in public service. This bold, academic innovation has now become another facet of higher education, changed the concept of "retirement," and helped change the world for the better." Advanced leaders share a desire to move beyond established structures to chart new pathways where ambiguity, complexity, and conflict reign. "They find new ideas and engage in new modes of action. They must think outside the building." These are among the passages of greatest interest and vaue to me, also listed to suggest the scope of Kanter's coverage in Chapters 1-6: o What Is Advanced About Advanced Leadership? (Pages 7-9) o The Past and Future of Leadership (11-14) o The Future of Big International Challenges: Why Change Is Difficult (23-29) o Before Problems Get Worse: The Urgent Need for New Approaches (33-36) o Finding Advanced Leaders: The Wendy-Kopp-to-Michael-Bloomberg Continuum (46-48) o Limits to Advanced Leadership: Seven Perverse Traps of Career Success (54-66) o Tapping Dreams: The First Steps to Advanced Leadership (85-87) o Kaleidoscope Thinking: From Fragments of Experience to a New Possibility (97-98) o Noticing Needs, Seeing Gaps: Contexual Intelligence (105-109) o Passion and Commitment (118-121) o Persuasion Rules: The Importance of Stories (124-127) o Reframing to Enlarge Possibilities (133-136) o Pitch a Big Tent: A Story That Enlists and Empowers (136-143) o Getting the Wheel Rolling: Coalitions at the Table (160-167) o Forming Allies into Coalitions (170-174) o Enlarge the Circles: Campaigning to Sell Change (180-186) o Several Advanced Learning Skills (189-193) o Following the Rule of Three (194-197) o Unexpected Hurdles, Obstacles, and Roadblocks (210-212) o Why People Give Up: The Roots of Failure (215-221) Then in the final chapter, "Good to Grow: The Road to Impact," Kanter provides a "yellow brick road" for advanced leaders to follow while thinking more innovatively to achieve ultimate success. I highly recommend that her "Conclusion" (Pages 265-284) be re-read at least every 90 days (if not monthly) to keep the key issues clearly in focus. As is her custom, Kanter anchors her key insights in real-world situations with which her readers can readily identify. She makes brilliant use of relevant examples, mini-case studies, and lessons learned (i.e. dos and don'ts) when explaining how to accelerate the development of advanced leadership, and, meanwhile, establish a workplace culture within which that process is most likely to thrive. I agree with Rosabeth Moss Kanter that advanced leadership offers "the leadership paradigm for the future: the ability to 'think outside the building' to overcome establishment paralysis and produce innovations for a better world." She prompts me to ask, channeling Hillel the Elder: If not now, when? If not you, who? ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2020 by Robert Morris
    • Roadmap to Positive Change
I have a love-hate relationship with books like this. Love: They make me think. Hate: They make me think. But no matter which way it goes, nobody does "think" books better than this author, whom I have admired ever since I read "A Tale of O: On Being Different in an Organization" way back in 1980 (and about five years later, "Change Masters"). Most of us in the business world (or mostly retired from it, like me) have long since taken the "think outside the box" mantra to heart; but now, the author maintains, the world has outgrown that box and it's time to expand our thinking once again. People have come to view institutions, such as health care or religion, as buildings; when we think of health care, we see hospitals; think religion, see churches or synagogues. The people inside these buildings - in particular, those who run them - for the most part have become accustomed to, and comfortable with, the way things are and resist meaningful change (i.e., that which can make a real difference in and to the world). Illustrated by a ton of examples, mostly from participants in Harvard University's Advanced Leadership Initiative (which the author co-founded and directs), this book "reflects a search for new possibilities for positive change." This means going beyond conventional wisdom, and certainly making an end run (or perhaps a bottom-up) around institutional top-down toxicity. Especially amid the I'm okay but you're not, circle the wagons times in which we live, that seems to me to be a sound approach. Many of us are unhappy with the world as it is, yet still believe it can be made better; the trick, if you will, is knowing how to make that happen. To be sure, it's not easy; it's not enough to have a well-thought-out idea. Just getting started requires three "Cs" - capabilities, connections and cash - either well in hand or knowing how and where to obtain them. Detailed here are the processes, from concept to fruition, of several such ventures: what worked, what didn't, and what the rest of us can learn from these experiences. Overall, this is an important book that isn't just for successful business men and women and those with plenty of money to spare. Rather, it's for anyone who sees a problem that needs addressed and envisions possible solutions that could make the world (or their little part of it) better. Highly recommended, and many thanks to the publisher, via NetGalley, for the opportunity to read and review a pre-publication copy. Oh yes, I'm still thinking. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2020 by Monnie Ryan
    • How to tackle tough challenges. And succeed.
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Rosabeth Moss Kanter has made a long, illustrious career out of advising top executives about how to do better for the business and the world. This book doesn't shy away from the size or difficulty of the problems we face but, rather than viewing them as barriers, she sees the challenges and opportunities in them. She condenses lessons - from her research, consulting practice, teaching, and the creation of Harvard's Advanced Leadership Institute - into "a source of inspiration and a guide to action." Just what the world needs, from someone who has so much to offer. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2020 by Amazon Customer Amazon Customer
    • all leaders can benefit from this thinking to help themselves, their organization and the world
This is a great stimulus for leaders to inspire and help even greater innovation and drive change to help make our world a better place!
Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2020 by Nancy Green

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